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Pushing the Limits of Solar Cells

Florida State University researchers are striving to make solar cells more effective at trapping and using light.

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Flextech Alliance Receives $75 Million Dep't of Defense Award

IEE faculty Michael Chabinyc, Tim Cheng, and Rachel Segalman will be a part of this Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) for…

Awards and Accolades

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Presidential Recognition

The Institute's executive director David Auston has been honored with the Award for Outstanding Faculty Leadership in Presidential…

Awards and Accolades

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UK Aims to Douse Coal Power by 2025

Britain has become the first country to set a shut-down date for coal plants in an effort to reduce their carbon emissions, with huge…

Industry and Business

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New Material Makes It Easier to Store Lots of Natural Gas

Work done at the University of California, Berkeley, shows how it may be possible to store natural gas more efficiently in cars using a…

Research

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Shuji Nakamura inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

For inventing the blue light-emitting diode, UCSB and Institute faculty member Shuji Nakamura will be inducted into the National…

Awards and Accolades

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Transforming Us Into a Society of Food Producers

Computer Science Professor Chandra Krintz recently gave a TEDx talk about how the same data analysis and prediction techniques used by…

Industry and Business

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Obama Rejects Construction of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline

President Obama announced that he had rejected the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ending a seven…

Industry and Business

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Toward Carbon Neutrality

A group of 200 scientists and scholars, including IEE's Executive Director David Auston, gathered at UC San Diego Oct. 26-27 for the…

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Solar Thermal Power Heats Up Outside the U.S.

Solar thermal energy has long been undermined by cheaper natural gas and conventional photovoltaics in the United States. Outside the U.…

Industry and Business

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Solar Cells; High-quality Perovskite Materials Developed Capable of Utilizing Long-Wavelength Sunlight

The National Institute for Materials Science has developed a method for manufacturing perovskite materials with a wider absorption…

Research

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Peering into Energy's Crystal Ball

McKinsey's predictions about energy were broadly on target in 2007. Here's how things could turn out dying the next eight years.

Industry and Business

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New Foam Batteries Promise Fast Charging, Higher Capacity

Startup Prieto Battery is developing 3-D "foam batteries" with the potential to be cheaper, smaller, more energy efficient, and more…

Research

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Institute's David Auston Named 2015 Sustainability Champion

Congratulations to our executive director, for being named Sustainability Champion for 2015! The CA Higher Education Sustainability…

Awards and Accolades

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Solvents Save Steps in Solar Cell Manufacturing

Advances made at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory make the manufacturing of ultra-thin films for solar panels…

Research

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IBM Reports Breakthrough on Carbon Nanotube Transistors

As more and more silicon transistors are needed for increasingly complex and efficient computer chips, manufacturers look for…

Industry and Business